The Guru’s of Tax & Spend Are Grooming the Public for Road Pricing

Like a pervert on the Internet grooming children for lewd encounters, the powers that be in METRO Vancouver are grooming the public for “road pricing” for a very rude tax grab. What is road pricing anyways? Road pricingAi??and congestion charging are direct charges levied for the use of roads, including road tolls, distance or time […]

Vancouver second most traffic congested city in North America: report

Ha, ha, ha – or should I weep. I guess “rubber on asphalt” with a $8 billion SkyTrain Canada Line sweetener hasn’t worked. Does the taxpayer really want to throw more money at TransLink to carry on with their unworkable and unaffordable light-metro dreams? The failure of the SkyTrain and the Canada Line light-metros to […]

The Light Rail Revolution in France

The one country that has spurred on the “light rail revolution” is France, yetAi??in the late 70’s and early 80’s French politicians and planners were going the light-metro route with the French VAL rubber tire mini-metro system. MATRA, the massive French Arms consortium, were the owners of the VAL proprietary light-metro system and the French […]

TransLink Just Doesn’t Get It – Increasing Fares Via The Park & Rides

In one of TransLink’s moreAi??daft ideas, a strict cash grab by bureaucrats, TransLink is going to charge at the park & rides that service the transit system.Ai??For many, this amounts to a 20% fare hike for 3-zone transit customers, which in the end will just provideAi??an incentive for transit customers to go back commuting by […]

Memo To TransLink – The Regional Mayors Did Not Blink – Well At Least For The Moment.

It seems TransLink’s game of chicken has failed at the regional level; well for the time being. The real problem why TransLink is on a financial precipice, is the SkyTrain light-metro system and light-metro systems, especially driverless light-metro systems, cost a lot to build and operate. Like many who work for TransLink, regional mayors have […]

TransLink Is Playing “Financial Chicken” With The Taxpayer.

TransLink is a one trick pony and Bob Paddon, TransLink’sAi??executive vice-president of strategic planning is the ringleader, trundling out the same old tired routine to con the public for more money. One tires of TransLink’s brinkmanship, but throwing more tax money at this ponderous bureaucracy will do nothing to alleviate the problem and the problem […]

New Port Mann Bridge toll for cars is $1.50 – A Pre-election Goody?

In a deliberate attempt to pander for votes in next spring’s election the BC Liberal government has offered a ‘pre full toll special’ for a few months and if you register for a decal, you get a full year at the discounted price – yippee! Zwei is not against tolling, but the new Port Mann […]

Another View on the High Cost of Expensive Grade Separated Infrastructure

The following post comes from the LRPPro Transit blog and the comments from Herr Wolfgang are extremely pertinent to the situation evolving with Metro Vancouver’s light metro network. Simply, no one; not oneAi??politicianAi??or current transit planner has factored in the high cost of maintenance that will be needed in the coming years for SkyTrain’s and […]

Eric Chris’s letter to New Transportation Minister, Mary Pollack

Dear Mary Polak, Langley MLA, Congratulations on being appointed to Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure ai??i?? first order of business ai??i?? a moratorium on any further B-line (rapid bus transit) and SkyTrain expansions along with the sacking of everyone associated with the current SkyTrain and B-Lines not only at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure […]

Dijon tram network opens six months early

From France, the new Dijon tram (LRT) network has opened 6 months early. If TransLink was really serious in building LRT in Surrey, the city could see its first tram/LRT line up and running in as little as three years. The foot dragging on designing affordable and efficient LRT for Surrey speaks volumes about TransLink […]